Assoc. Prof. Antigone Kouris

For All Of Your Professional Weight Loss & Nutritional Services In The Greater Murrumbeena Area, You Can't Go Past Dr Antigone Kouris.

Assoc. Prof. Antigone Kouris - Nutriton & Weight Loss

WEIGHT LOSS STRATEGIES

Dr Kouris has contributed to 5 university text books. She has authored a chapter on the dietary management of overweight and obesity in the text book “Food and Nutrition” edited by Professor Mark Wahlqvist published in 2011.

In this chapter she reviews the research regarding various weight loss diets, including the use of meal replacements. The research suggests that complete meal replacements (VLEDs) (where all meals are replaced with formulated shakes/bars/soups) and partial meal replacements (where one to two meals a day are replaced with formulated shakes/bars/soups) are safe and effective in both the short and long term often resulting in improvements in blood glucose and insulin levels and cholesterol and blood pressure.

They also provide a higher intake of nutrients than achieved on diet alone and can result in greater weight loss (9-10% of body weight) than weight loss achieved on diet alone (6-8% of body weight). For these reasons Dr Kouris is happy to use clinically trialled meal replacements with her patients (e.g Optifast or Cambridge), especially at the beginning to kick start some weight loss to help with motivation.

Nutritional adequacy of your diet:using a combination of dietary history, clinical symptoms, nutritional biochemistry/blood tests. If your diet is lacking any nutrients, a combination of diet and short term supplementation will be recommended to correct these.

Dr Kouris has a special interest in identifying nutritional insufficiencies as these can contribute to feelings of unwellness and development of health problems.

In general, multivitamins are not commonly used. Instead, short term nutritional therapy may involve the use of specialised nutritional products that target specific organs (e.g bowel) or metabolic functions (e.g insulin action).

Dr Kouris looks for symptoms of insufficiencies (e.g tongue,nails, eyes, hair, skin, fatigue, brain fog, bowel problems, muscle pain, PMT etc) which will be cross-checked against the nutritional adequacy of the diet. As a result, she may recommend further blood tests be performed via the GP.CONSULTATION FEES